Re: ABC News Declares "JFK shot himself"

Mike1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick) wrote:
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> >Mike1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> >> Perhaps you could distill the book for me: Explain to me what it has to 
> >> say regarding the Warren Commission's released photographs of a pristine 
> >> magic bullet featuring six rifling grooves when the rifle allegedly used 
> >> in the crime only had four rifling grooves.
> >
> >I don't think that theory was around at the time the book was written.
> 
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> "That theory" -- which is a *fact* -- "was around" from virtually the 
> first moment that critics got hold of the weapon's data and compared it 
> to TWC's bullet photos.

It wasn't mentioned in Marrs' "Crossfire." It wasn't in "JFK." It
wasn't in Posner's "Case Closed." It certainly wasn't mentioned in
anything earlier, like Josiah Thompson's "Six Seconds in Dallas." So
if this is such ironclad proof that's been around since the HSCA, why
didn't anyone mentioned it until the mid-90's?

> >I think the rifling issue is mostly a question of looking at old black
> >and white photos and interpreting them a certain way. Far from
> >scientific or conclusive proof of anything.

> Utter crap. Rifling grooves on a bullet looks the same in B&W or color, 
> and their spacing around the cartridge is all you need to know to 
> extrapolate the number on the reverse. This is exactly why the 1978 
> House "re-examination" curiously dwelt upon, and released photographs 
> of, an entirely different bullet (!), a dented one (which is then 
> theoretically consistant with blasting through multiple bones) with a 
> four-groove pattern. You tell me whether it was the Warren Commission, 
> or the '78 House, or everybody all along, that was *lying*.

No. They're all telling the truth. It's not credible that hundreds, if
not thousands, of people, including everyone who came into Congress
over the last forty years, is forced to asked to swear allegiance to
the ongoing "coverup" and agrees to it. Which is what would be
required for this theory to be true.

> Books like "Case Closed" serve as pressure-release valves to the 
> credulous, who, instead of getting mad enough to do something about an 
> internal coup-de-etat, can instead receive contrary explanations (which 
> carefully avoid the most controversial data) to reward a desire for 
> renewed lethargy and forgetfulness in their assigned mass-roles as 
> perfectly obedient tax-serfs.

The book presents very rational arguments, based on *concrete
evidence*, which is why it's so satisfying and convincing. Unlike most
or all conspiracy theories.